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Second International Workshop on
Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering

TWOMDE2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

at the ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model
Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2009)

http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/twomde2009/

IMPORTANT DATES
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* July 25, 2009: Papers submission
* August 30, 2009: Author notification
* September 15, 2009: Submission of camera-ready papers
* October 4-6, 2009: Workshop Date

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The interest in integrating Ontologies and Software Engineering has gained more attention with commercial and scientific initiatives. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to explore how Semantic Web and Software Engineering can cooperate. The Object Management Group (OMG) has an Ontology Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) aiming at formalizing semantics in software by knowledge representation and related technologies. The concrete results of such initiatives are the specification of the OMG Ontology Definition Metamodel, the OWL2 Metamodel, the introduction to Ontology Driven Architectures and a Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers.

Nevertheless, as MDE spreads, disciplines like model transformation, domain specific languages (DSLs) and traceability become essential in order to support different kinds of models in an model driven environment. Understanding the role of ontology technologies like knowledge representation, automated reasoning, dynamic classification and consistence checking in these fields is crucial to leverage the development of such disciplines. Thus, we highlight the following open questions: How can the scientific and technical results around ontologies, ontology languages and their corresponding reasoning technologies be used fruitfully in MDE? What is the role of ontologies in supporting model transformation or traceability? How can ontologies improve designing DSLs? Are current query languages able to query both kinds of models?

Discussions about these and related questions will be supported by this workshop. TWOMDE2009 aims at providing a forum for discussing the application of different aspects of ontologies to enhance Model Driven Engineering.

The intended audience embraces members of the modeling community with experience or interest in Model Driven Engineering and in Knowledge Representation. Specifically, but not only, the participation of experts in technologies related with UML, MOF, ATL, QVT, RDF or OWL is highly welcome.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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TWOMDE2009 is the exclusive forum at a MDE conference to address the application of ontologies in model driven development. The potential of this field has just started being explored.

Although we had papers covering different aspects of MDE, the employment of automated reasoning services to make use of formal descriptions provided by ontology languages has practically not been explored. Moreover, prominent topics in MDE like model transformation, traceability and query languages were not pondered by the papers of the first edition.

For this edition, we expect more use cases in a wider range of topics. We would like to see successful industry use cases and quality models to evaluate the role of ontologies in MDE.

Topics of interest are but not exclusive:

* RDF metamodel repository: interfaces and models to store, retrieve, query and manage MOF/Ecore metadata in RDF stores.

* Metamodeling support of semantic structures: improvements on metamodeling facilities for representing richer real-world semantics, like OWL or OWL2.

* Reasoning over MOF-based models using ontologies: verification and validation of models using ontologies; application of Description Logics reasoning in UML diagrams or MOF/Ecore models, in order to enhance and to support models and metamodels at design time as well as at runtime.

* Application of ontologies in model transformation: usage of ontologies and reasoning to automatically generate model transformations; validation of model transformations; use of reasoning in model transformation rules.

* Reasoning and query languages for integrated models: development or integration of query languages able to retrieve objects of MOF-based models and OWL-based models; reasoning approaches or algorithms regarding both semantics of Description Logics semantics of and MOF-based models.

* Integration of modeling standards and metamodeling of ontology technologies: integration approaches like aspect-oriented programming to weave modeling standards like MOF, Ecore, UML, OCL, ODM, and SWRL; development, improvement or integration of metamodels for ontology technologies, for example OWL, SWRL, F-Logic.

* Ontology driven software development: ontology support to web service orchestration; software architectures and methodologies for developing semantic web services and agents; reuse of web service ontologies or application of reasoning in specifying execution logics of orchestration.

* MDE tools using ontologies: implementations of MDE tools relying on ontologies or on reasoning services.

* Semantic support to Domain Specific Languages: integration of metamodeling and ontologies in order to provide abstract syntax and formal semantics for DSL.

* Ontology engineering with MDA/MDE techniques: application of MDA/MDE techniques in order to support ontology engineering activities like ontology pruning, ontology refactoring, or ontology measurement.

* Ontology connectors to system models: methods and techniques for integrating ontology constructs like classes and properties with MOF-based constructs like classes, properties or operations.

* Application of Ontologies in traceability and provenance: usage of model annotations, ontologies and reasoning in order to improve traceability between MOF-based models.


SUBMISSION
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* Full Papers: describe concrete contributions validated by appropriate evaluation. Full paper submissions must not exceed 15 pages.

* Short Papers: comprehend research-in-progress, industrial experience and position papers. Short paper submissions does not exceed 6 pages.

* Posters and Demos: authors are invited to submit a three-page paper describing tools involving ontologies in MDE.

All papers must be submitted online using the submission website (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twomde2009). Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).


PROCEEDINGS
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Final versions of accepted papers will be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series. Revised selected papers will be submitted to the LNCS MoDELS Satellite Proceedings. Select papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the special issue of the Journal on Software & System Modeling (under negotiation).


ORGANIZATION
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* Fernando Silva Parreiras (DE), University of Koblenz-Landau
* Jeff Z. Pan (GB), University of Aberdeen
* Uwe Assmann (DE), Dresden University of Technology


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Alexander Paar (DE), University of Karlsruhe (TH)
* Andreas Winter (DE), University of Mainz
* Bernhard Rumpe (DE), Braunschweig University of Technology
* Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim
* Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research
* Dragan Gasevic (CA), Simon Fraser University Surrey
* Elisa F. Kendall (US), Sandpiper Software, Inc.
* Gerd Wagner (DE), Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
* Gerti Kappel (AT), Vienna University of Technology
* Giancarlo Guizzardi (IT), ISTC-CNR
* Harald Kuehn (AT), BOC Information Systems GmbH
* Holger Knublauch (US), TopQuadrant
* Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University
* Luis Ferreira Pires (NL), University of Twente
* Peter Haase (DE), University of Karlsruhe (TH)
* Phil Tetlow (GB), IBM Business Consulting Services
* Saartje Brockmans (DE), Ontoprise
* Steffen Staab (DE), University of Koblenz-Landau


CONTACT
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Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you have any question regarding this
event.

Fernando Silva Parreiras, parreiras@uni-koblenz.de


SPONSORS
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EU STReP MOST, http://www.most-project.eu/